Here’s the new look!  It took me all day long to finish it, and, still, it never would have gotten done without Ivon’s help!  Yay!  And, I designed my own blog template out of my scrapbook papers, (without Ivon’s help, mind you!  He’s not much help when it comes to artistic things!).  I am so excited!  Of course, I don’t know that I will be changing this one for quite a while.  I might just have Fourth of July decor up for Christmas!  He he! ;) 

I am trying to figure out how to make my own template!  I know it looks awful right now, but, I will get it eventually!  Hopefully!  (I may need Ivon to fix all of it later! ;) )

  Last summer, we tried reading charts for Emily and Hannah to keep up with their reading skills.  It worked very well!  They’d read ten to fifteen simple books, and get an ice cream cone.  Then, they’d read ten to fifteen more, and get another ice cream cone.  They could work up to four or five treats, and then get a toy at the end when the chart was all full.  I expected this chart to last all summer.  They finished it in a week.  The ice cream was good, though!  
  So, this summer, we will do something similar.  I just made these charts up this morning.  And, Robby gets one to work on, too!  He needs some extra incentive to get all his ABC’s down before Kindergarten starts this fall.  I would have made one for Christopher, but, don’t know what I should make it for.  He’ll just have to reap the benefits of his older siblings’ hard work!  :)

Yeah, I know.  I can’t get enough.  But, when you go through the stress of potty training, you’ve got to have as much fun as possible!  For the first potty training post, I had wanted to do a scrapbook page of the picture… but, didn’t have time.  (Come to think of it, I still don’t have time!  But, I did it anyway!)  So, now, I want to share it!  He he!

Emily was the cutest little devil that year!  And, Hannah was a cute little angel!  Ha ha!  SO fitting! 

This kid makes me laugh!  He says some pretty funny things!  Although, I have to say that his laugh is the funniest of all!  I wish I could scrap that!  Maybe some day we will catch it on video.  Hope so!

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